Kata (型 or 形 literally: "form"), a series of choreographed patterns of movements used for teaching, through which successful techniques are mastered.

Join the AWS team for a day of live discussions as well as business and technical mentoring on the latest cloud computing best practices. Geared specifically to growing start-ups and development teams, the Cloud Kata sessions will guide you through tips, customer testimonials and technical best practices to help you grow faster on the AWS Cloud. As seats are limited, sign up for your free pass today!

10 reasons to attend:

Discover pro tips that help your start-ups as you go from idea to minimum viable product (MVP), to scale, and ultimately to profitability.

See live demonstrations and learn more about services such as Amazon EC2, Relational Database Service (RDS), S3, CloudFront, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

AWS Speakers: Pieter Kemps, Business Development Manager and Joe Ziegler, Start-Up Business Development Manager

Customer Speaker: Steven Su, CTO, Fandora

Getting to Scale on AWS

This session will focus on how to get from 'Minimum Viable Product' (MVP) to scale. It will also explain how to deal with unpredictable demand and how to build a scalable business. Attend this session to learn how to:

AWS Speakers: Pieter Kemps, Business Development Manager and Joe Ziegler, Start-Up Business Development Manager

Customer Speaker: Reiny Song, CTO & Co-Founder, Gogolook (Whoscall)

Getting to Profitability on AWS

Getting from scale to profitability, the question is: How to run lean and continue to grow revenue? How to get to profitability? This session will focus on how to run lean. Attend this session to learn more about:

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) on the AWS Cloud versus on-premise infrastructure

AWS Speakers: Pieter Kemps, Business Development Manager and Joe Ziegler, Start-Up Business Development Manager

Customer Speaker: Yenwen Feng, CEO & Co-Founder, Cubie Messenger

Technical Co-Founders Handbook

This session provides insight on how to build the technology needed for your start-ups. How do you choose the correct technical stack? How to build for growth? Do you use a relational database or a NoSQL option?

How do you find a good technical co-founder?

What are the technical decisions for your business you can make now that will support you in the future?

Gain insight to best practice architectures to solve your market.

AWS Speaker: Joe Ziegler, Start-Up Business Development Manager

Venture Capital, Funding and Pitching

Pieter Kemps works with venture capitalists, incubators and angel investors in Taiwan and across Asia. Learn what motivates these high-risk investors and what it takes to make your start-up attractive:

How do you design a pitch to meet the needs of the new wave of venture capitalists?

How does funding work? What are the different types of funding available to start-ups?

Should you fund with debt or equity? What are the pros and cons?

What are the elements of a great pitch and presentation to get funding?

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